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- , 1969 INTERVIEWEE: JAMES H. ROWE, JR. INTERVIEWER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Mr. Rowe's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1 F: We were talking last time about the election of 1956, and I thought today we would go on forward chronologically
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- Oral history transcript, James H. Rowe, Jr., interview 2 (II), 9/16/1969, by Joe B. Frantz
- James H. Rowe, Jr.
- fifties on, did you see much of the relationship between Rayburn and Johnson? H: Yes. Of course, I saw only a small part of it. over quite frequently to Rayburn's office. Johnson would come Rayburn would only very rarely go over to Johnson's office
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- Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
- Johnson, it was then that I met Lyndon for the first time. Lyndon went down to talk to Kl eberg, and K1 eberg and Maury were friends, and as I said it was then that I remember seeing Lyndon as a young, young person. or '32--say 1930 though. I thought I
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- heard about the NYA starting up, and Maury Maverick, who was a congressman in San Antonio, was, I think, a close friend of Lyndon's. Maury was quite a guy, and Maury told me to go on up to see Lyndon, so I did just that, to Austin. I think the NYA had
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- on his way down to Corpus Christi to accept his first big assignment job with Congressman Richard M. Kleberg. Congressman Kleberg asked him to stop by and meet us, and he stayed all night in our home. C: Were you publishing then? F: Yes sir, fifty
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- : http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Palmer -- I -- 2 G: So you had not assumed command of the airborne corps. P: No. G: I see. P: There was Kay, sitting in Quarters One. (Laughter) And a fellow named Jim Lawrie, commander
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- , 1968 INTERVIEHEE: WARREN M. CHRISTOPHER INTERVIEWER: THO~IAS PLACE: Department of Justice, Washington, D.C. H. BAKER Tape 1 of 1 B: Sir, there is one whole area here involving urban disorders, the major city riots, which I believe you've been
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 25 (XXV), 3/17/1988, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1988 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: Subversive Activities Control Board. C: The decisions of the Supreme Court and changing times
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- the publishers]? L: Oh, Sam Fore, Jr. was number one. G: He'd known him from the Kleberg days, I guess, Did you see much of him during those days? L: Yes. I didn't see him much during the NYA program. When they got around to the political campaign, why
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- � � LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] INTERVIEWEE : Kenneth M . Birkhead (Tape #2) INTERVIEWER : T . H . Baker DATE January 13, 1970 Ba
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- [For interviews 1 and 2] First meeting with LBJ in 1948; Thomas C. Henning, Jr.; Joseph R. McCarthy; Senator Earle Clements; Senate Campaign Committee; Walter Jenkins; George Reedy; John Connally; Eisenhower inauguration; LBJ's organization
- Oral history transcript, Kenneth M. Birkhead, interview 2 (II), 1/13/1970, by T.H. Baker
- Kenneth M. Birkhead
- entir~ly with the different candidates: McGovern, and Humphrey. Seems to me like there was 'one can't particularly recall right now. McCarthy, m~re that I I thought there were four. F: I can't remember, now, who it was. S: But what I did
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Oral history transcript, Sam Houston Johnson, interview 10 (X), 3/31/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- Charlie was confirmed the next day, without any hearings. So Charlie, he and I were never real close, because I had--well, we were good friends, still are. this, because this is funny. In 1952--you see, it fits in like I think I told you, didn't I, about
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- [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh 15 I rcn:cr.,ocr buck t iJC m;}int:.:incd consto.nt conto.ct through the radio on the airplane the :"li te HO,lSC to see Here the:: ivin~s coming
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- King, Martin Luther, Jr., 1929-1968
- children. L: Yes. G: I see. Her Her mother's family had lived LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson Library Oral Histories [NAID 24617781] More on LBJ Library oral histories: http
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- on the force now. This man told me he came in Truman's time, so he didn't see anything of me, except if I went to the White House. F: Well, we'll get started then. When did you first meet the Johnsons? T: I've been trying to think of that. when I was up
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- a bust of FDR to LBJ and receiving a bust of LBJ; 1955 Democratic Women’s Club meeting in San Antonio; JFK’s invitation for Tully to come to the White House to see if his desk was the same one used by FDR.
Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 10 (X), 9/23/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 G: You were talking about the atmosphere of the-- C: Yes. I remember going over to the [Capitol
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Oral history transcript, Joseph A. Califano, interview 16 (XVI), 12/16/1987, by Michael L. Gillette
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- , 1987 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR. INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D. C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: I was meeting with [Robert] McNamara, [Nicholas] Katzenbach, [John] Douglas, [Henry] Fowler, [John
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- been others, but I don't remember. G: I see. D: It was sort of to get the ball rolling. G: What precisely were you given to do in that position? D: Well, the first place, I have to confess I knew nothing about anything. I knew zero. G
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Oral history transcript, Lady Bird Johnson, interview 4 (IV), 2/4/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- histories: http://discoverlbj.org/exhibits/show/loh/oh Johnson -- IV -- 4 sunrise. I think we wanted to see the sunrise over the city. The meals, of course, were lots of courses and very fancy. Oh, yes, there were some friends on there. M. D. Bryant from
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- I NTERV I El~EE: ~JAL TER I NTERV I El·JER: JOE B. FRANTZ PLACE: Dr. Frantz' office in Garrison Hall, University of Texas, Austin, Texas. HORNADAY Tape 1 of 1 F: First of all, i-Jr. Hornaday, tell us very briefly about yourself. Are you
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- to the Vietnam plank. This was the core problem. I felt it desirable to go to Chicago before the convention began, and in fact, got there about a week early to see whether a consensus could be worked out. Before I got there, I had a copy of a recent speech
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- flexible; Humphrey's personality and how it changed during the convention: Humphrey's loyalty to LBJ and frustration over the situation; why John F. Kennedy beat Humphrey in West Virginia in 1960; 1960 opposition from Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., and meetings
- Johnson was smarter, and as I recall it he was much more vocal . of Sam Rayburn in terms of his mentor . I did not think I was very impressed with Sam Rayburn, loved him, but I did not see that mentorstudent bit even then . G. Was there any deference
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- of the Appalachian region on the other side. was under Franklin Roosevelt, Jr., who was then under secretary of Commerce. [He] was the head of the federal side. It LBJ Presidential Library http://www.lbjlibrary.org ORAL HISTORY TRANSCRIPT Lyndon B. Johnson
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Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
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- to Washington with the initial term of Richard M. Kleberg, who had been elected to Congress from Corpus Christi . That had at one time been part of the same congressional district with San Antonio . They had split off this Nueces County with sev eral other
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- Oral history transcript, Russell M. Brown, interview 1 (I), 1/10/1978, by Michael L. Gillette
- Russell M. Brown
Oral history transcript, Vasco Leitao da Cunha, interview 1 (I), 5/31/1973, by Dr. Richard Graham
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- the United States and Brazil, except the ordinary routine problems, such as problems of the coffee agreement and things like that which are of an international nature and on which we not always agreed, but which it was our fortune to see solved without
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- class, and after I quit it, and he quit it, well, the professor told me that I wasn't flunking it but old Seth was. Well, Seth, he got thrown out of college and we didn't see any more of him, but he was a fine man and of course he had a real fine
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Oral history transcript, Sidney "Sub" Pyland, interview 1 (I), 9/4/1979, by Michael L. Gillette
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- nice. It was fine to see all these people that had such a hard time back in a very depressing time, [to see] that most of them evolved into pretty good citizens. Not leftists, you know. Most of them have the right perspective. They're law-abiding
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- against it, because [Harlan] Fentress--at that time I think that Bill Anderson and some of the others were running the paper. Let's see, what \vas the man's name that had-G: Charlie Marsh? J: Charlie Marsh, yes. He talked to Charlie Marsh. Charlie
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- in the Department of Justice, and told them who I was and why I was, So to speak. F: I thin'~ we hit everybody in the Department of Justice---at least Assistant Secre ta:..-y up, and qui te a number of others--Ed Heis 1 Jr. So I feel that itJs myoId stomping
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- /exhibits/show/loh/oh Fleming -- I -- 2 Currier, [and] my board members. We were interested, but we didn't see anything startling about this, and there really wasn't. It was an updating of E. Franklin Frazier, that's what it was, though it, as we now know
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- groups; Martin Luther King Jr.'s lack of involvement in the conference; A. Philip Randolph and Bayard Rustin's alternate "freedom" budget; involvement of major civil rights organizations and leaders in the conference; recommendations that came out
- , 1989 INTERVIEWEE: JOSEPH A. CALIFANO, JR., with comments by Marcel Bryar INTERVIEWER: Michael L. Gillette PLACE: Mr. Califano's office, Washington, D.C. Tape 1 of 1, Side 1 C: [My] recollection is as vivid as the one I had on the first briefing
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- in Karnack, didn't he? W: Kuehne? A: Kuehne? W: Yes, he probably did because I think Mrs. Kuehne was--no, let's see, she wasn't related in any waY,was she? A: No, she was a Glass. W: That's right. But he was a well-known architect and a very
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- . He made that 10 cents for each pair of When he was emancipated he had $600 in dimes that the master had kept for him. F: I see. T: He wasn't buying the acre then, but he bought the land after he was free. Every time he sold a pair of shoes, he
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- ; LBJ; Hobart Taylor, Jr.; Mrs. Hobart Taylor; LBJ's 1948 Senate race; LBJ and civil rights; Bob Eckhardt
- /loh/oh Baker -- III -- 6 LBJ was trying to bum's-rush them. See, I had already been trying to do it since January of 1961, and it all seemed awful slow and way behind to me. G: Do you think that the poverty program was planned with the idea
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Oral history transcript, George E. Reedy, interview 5 (V), 10/27/1982, by Michael L. Gillette
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- the only way to ever really put an end to the Civil War was to elect a south erner president. And he could not see any southerner that could get elected president except LBJ. He talked about that to me as early as 1953. 12 LBJ Presidential Library
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- , 1977 INTERVIEWEE: D. B. HARDEMAN INTERVIEWER: MICHAEL L. GILLETTE PLACE: Maury Maverick, Jr.'s residence, San Antonio, Texas Tape 1 of 2 H: Okay, let me mention this now because I may never think about it again. A person that might have a little note
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- Hardeman, D. Barnard, Jr., 1914-1981
- district judge at Midland, and I see him. He doesn't come up often. He's very active in the Shrine and Scottish Rite work. Every time he comes up here we get together and reminisce. F: I was very much aware of the Masonic Home in those days, because
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Oral history transcript, O.C. Fisher, interview 1 (I), 5/8/1969, by Dorothy Pierce (McSweeny)
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- : Apparently, he was quite popular and respected among the members. Mc: Whom did you see as his close friends? F: His closest friends, I would say, from my viewpoint, were Sam Rayburn and Wright Patman. I'm sure there were others; he was quite friendly
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- . B: Did you see or [lear any signs of presidential ambition, say, in 1956? S: I didn't. I was not that close to him. I was not in Chicago in 1956 \vhen Jack Kennedy almost got the nomination for vice president, so I really \vas not that close
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- with the poverty legislation. I never saw a piece of paper authored by either of them as I came to have a role in the undertaking. From my experience, I would say that the extent to which I didn't see them cannot be taken as being really determinative
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